Collateral damage is “damage that is unintended or incidental to the intended outcome.”
The truck driver never intended it, but after his tire blew out several cars impacted the tread carcass and experienced collateral damage. My son David was a few cars back. The car in front of him ran over the blown tire and threw it up in the air. It landed on the front end of his car. $1700 worth of collateral damage.
When summer heat and high speeds conspire to destroy tires, hoods and bumpers and grilles often pay the price.
How true to life! Whenever you or I succumb to temptation, we don’t just blow a tire. Our sin ends up impacting people all around us withcollateral damage. It may have been unintended or incidental, but it’s damage all the same. And the price-tag to others is often quite high.
Just another reason this summer to “be very careful, then, how you walk, not as unwise but as wise… because the days are evil” (Eph 5:15-16).
Blessings,
